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f 4 tnitettet @einer wir. i we. SHOEMAKER, oFlfroWsoNToWN. MARYLAND, AND E. H. SHOE- MAKER, OF LANCASTER, OHIO. Letters Patent YNo. 90,028, dated lldcy` 11, 1869.

IMPRovnMENT IN Hoer-RING; .f

The Schedule referred to m these Letters Patent and makng`part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that we, W. S. SHoEMAKnmof Towsoutown, in `the county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, and E. H. SBOEMAKER, of Lancaster, in

,the county` of Fairield, andState of Ohio, have invented a new andimproved Hog-Ring; and Awe do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

,exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, making part of this speoicaf tion, inwhioh-V,v

Figure l shows the manner of applyingthe improved `device to the snout of a hog.

Figure 2 is a front view ofthe device. Figure 3 is a central section through th'e device. This invention relates to a new and useful improvementon devices which are designed for preventing hogs from rooting. Y

It consists of a wire bent in the form of a ring, with theI ends turned outwardly and brought together; and

derstand how to make and use our improved device.

1We take a wire rod of proper diameter and strength, and bend it centrally-s0 as to'form the ring a with the `two ends al, al, extending outwardly, and pointed if desired.

We then take a piece of sheet-metal of propersize f and shape, represented by b in the drawings, and make three parailel cuts through it, and press out the intermediate cut portions in opposite directions, so as to form loops c c', for receiving through them the straight portions ja, of the wire,.which ,portionswe term the' locking-tongue of the ring.

' To apply the device, a hole is made through the nose or snout of a hog, and one of the straight p0rtions al of the tongue inserted into it, and drawn through until the ring c is in its place.

The two straight wires,a.1 a, are then brought close together, and inserted through loop c on one side of the plateb, bent around the lower edge of this plate,

inserted through the opposite loop c, and then bent backward, as shown at a?, thereby forming two hooks, which will prevent the plate b' from slipping on the tongue of the ring, and will so eiectually seal or lock the ring as to prevent any-liability of its being worked off the snout of the hog.

Having' described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi A hog-ring, c, having a tongue, c a, formed by its ends bent as described, in combination with a looped seal-plate, b, substantially as described.

\ W. S. SHOEMAKER. A E. H. SHOEMAKER. Witnesses as to E; H. SHOEMAKER:

JOHN GARAGHTY, H. W. CARPENTER. Witnesses as to W. S. SHOEMAKEB :l

. E. B. S. SHOEMAKEB,

D. G. MoIN'rosH. 

